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“Don’t take pictures of the checkpoint.” “Watch out – its under military occupation.” “You’re only allowed in for one day.” In 2005, at Dr. Alex Elder’s Trader Camp in Cyprus, we knew these rules when we voted to venture, as a group, to Northern Cyprus, a territory controlled by the Turkish army and unrecognized by the United Nations. A few campers had strong opinions about the unfortunate Greek vs Turkish conflict that cost thousands of lives on each side and declined the trip. They spent their free day on the Greek side of the island. The rest of us chipped in for the motor coach that took us for an unbelievably action-packed day.